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"A journey to the coast of North Sentinel Island, home to a tribe believed to be the most isolated human community on earth. The Sentinelese people want to be left alone and will shoot deadly arrows at anyone who tries to come ashore. As the web of modernity draws ever closer, the island represents the last chapter in the Age of Discovery-the final holdout in a completely connected world. In November 2018, a zealous American missionary was killed...
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"Two modern adventurers sought a treasure possessed by the legendary 'Wild Men of Borneo.' One found riches. The other vanished forever into an endless jungle. Had he shed civilization--or lost his mind? Global headlines suspected murder. Lured by these mysteries. New York Times bestselling author Carl Hoffman journeyed to find the truth, discovering that nothing is as it seems in the world's last Eden. Tracing the entwined tales of Michael...
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We live a big world. There are so many locations to explore and learn about. This book has different types of categories about locations worldwide.This can be a fun activity to do by yourself to see how many places you know, or with others to see how much they know.
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It is impossible for the religious man not to take particular interest in the history of the Hebrews. The idea of tracing to America the long lost tribes of Israel has risen before the imagination of many and became a favorite theory with the early Spanish priests settled in America.
Among the early authorities contending that the American Indians are descendants from the Israelites, James Adair seems to be the principal one, and since his time,...
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Following his vivid account of traveling with one of the last camel caravans on earth in Men of Salt, Michael Benanav now brings us along on a journey with a tribe of forest-dwelling nomads in India. Welcomed into a family of nomadic water buffalo herders, he joins them on their annual spring migration into the Himalayas. More than a glimpse into an endangered culture, this superb adventure explores the relationship between humankind and wild lands,...
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“Burnout-How a Desert Lizard Restored My Faith” is Book 1 in the “Burnout to Bliss” series. It tells the story of an ordinary woman who experienced extreme burnout, aka dark night of the soul or existential crisis. The story begins with a murder that happened while she was lecturing. It relates all the ways the author sought relief—from self-medication with alcohol, drugs, and sex to psychics to counseling and psychiatry. Most importantly,...
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Take a journey across Canada to visit our world-renowned natural and historic landmarks.
With Canada's World Wonders, you'll visit Banff National Park, the first link in a vast network of natural parks and heritage sites that has grown to include Old Quebec, the Rideau Canal, and the Fortress of Louisbourg. UNESCO World Heritage Sites, such as Head-Smashed-In Buffalo Jump in Alberta and the Gwaii Haanas totems in British Columbia, as well as such...
8) Some Memoirs of the Life of Job, the Son of Solomon, the High Priest of Boonda in Africa, Who Was a
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Ayuba Suleiman Diallo (1701-1773), also known as Job ben Solomon, was a famous Muslim who was a victim of the Atlantic slave trade. Born in Bundu, Senegal (West Africa), Job's memoirs were published as one of the earliest slave narratives in Thomas Bluett's 1734 book "Some Memories of the Life of Job."
Diallo came from a prominent Fulbe family of Muslim religious leaders. His grandfather had founded the town of Bundu, and he grew up with Samba Geladio...
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"The work of F. H. Berkeley...the best that one can desire as a descriptive narrative of a battle which, from the military point of view, represents the peculiar phenomenon of a European army annihilated by a native African race, and from the political point of view it shows to what a dangerous path a nation can be led by unrestricted colonial ambition." -The Westminster Review (1904)
"This is the one thorough account in English of the military operations...
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Why was Great Britain, the most powerful empire in the world, so anxious to gain favor with the West African regional power known as The Asante Empire?
In 1824, Joseph Dupuis (1789-1874), sent as an Agent to gain the good graces of the King of the Asante Empire, shed some light on British interactions with the Asante Empire in his 1824 book "Journal of a Residence in Ashantee."
In introducing his book, Dupuis writes:
"It was explained to me, in England,...
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A mystery stone was found in the vicinity of Paleoindian sites along the Shenandoah river, near Berryville, Virginia. Photographs and computer images generated from them reveal enigmatic forms. They make for a cosmogram, an alternate way to look at the universe, and one that reveals Indigenous thought. The Haikus reflect on possible meanings of the designs and will often pose a question for you to answer. We invite you to aid in the discovery of this...
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L'auteur nous raconte l'étrange destin de ce peuple maudit et apatride.
Disséminés entre le Cambodge et le Viêt Nam, les Chams sont les héritiers d'un empire disparu : le Champa. Les Khmers affirment que les Chams sont nés de l'union d'un chien et d'une truie, et leur prêtent de redoutables pouvoirs magiques. Quant à Pol Pot, le tyran rouge, il a bien failli les exterminer jusqu'au dernier. Cambodgiens sans être khmers, musulmans dans des...
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Now in his old age, Chief Tenaya's life and the lives in his tribe are changed forever...
In the Mariposa Indian War of 1850/51, the venerable Chief Tenaya is catapulted into leading his people into conflict against white man's plunder of their land and culture during the California Gold Rush. His story is a tale of family love, death, tribal lore and spirituality, all of it torn apart by a lust for gold. In Chief Tenaya's world, the pillages of...
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The land carries voices. The land remembers what happened upon it. In traveling the land, I become familiar with more than myself. Give me the journey of the road, it is my journey home.
From the award-winning Native American literary writer Diane Glancy comes a book about travel, belonging, and home. Travel is not merely a means to bring us from one location to another. "My sense of place is in the moving," Glancy writes. For her the road is home...
16) Discourses on the Evidences of the American Indians Being the Descendants of Lost Tribes of Israel
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In his 1825 book "View of the Hebrews," Rev. Ethan Smith suggests that Native Americans are descendants of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel. These tribes were said to have disappeared after being taken captive by the Assyrians in the 8th century BCE.
Smith's speculation was inspired by the apocryphal 2 Esdras 13:41, which says that the Ten Tribes traveled to a far country, "where never mankind dwelt"-which Smith interpreted to mean North America. Smith...
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John Eliot (1604-1690), a Puritan missionary to the American Indians known as "the apostle to the Indians" noticed that the Indians he observed shared many similarities to Jews. Reverend Thomas Thorowgood (1595-1669) was a friend of John Eliot's, and an efficient promoter of missionary work among the Indians. Based on his correspondence with Eliot discussing the similarities of Indians to Israelites, Thorowgood published in 1660 "Jews in America,...
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In 1895 the Imperial Government took over the administration of British East Africa; the company ceased to exist, and subsequently Sidney Langford Hinde (1863-1930) became Resident and Collector of Masailand. He had many opportunities of obtaining information concerning this unique and interesting people, and, assisted by Mrs. Hinde, has embodied the results of his gleanings in the present volume, his book 1901 book "The last of the Masai."
The Masai...
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In The Edge of Extinction, Jules Pretty explores life and change in a dozen environments and cultures across the world, taking us on a series of remarkable journeys through deserts, coasts, mountains, steppes, snowscapes, marshes, and farms to show that there are many different ways to live in cooperation with nature. From these accounts of people living close to the land and close to the edge emerge a larger story about sustainability and the future...
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